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<p>Good water quality for livestock is critical for preserving animal health, ensuring the quality of animal products, supplying safe food, and increasing food production economics. Higher water levels of toxic compounds than permitted can impair meat, fat, eggs, and milk production, lower fertility, and represent public health hazards. Water picks up pollutants from its surroundings and those caused by animal and human activities. Many physicochemical parameters were used to ensure water quality, including pH, salt, taste, color, alkalinity, odor, and hardness. Water quality, directly and indirectly, impacts livestock performance and, thus, the poultry industry. Employing drinking water as a carrier of drugs still faces substantial barriers. The effectiveness of vaccinations and drugs is affected by inadequate water quality. Furthermore, contaminated water and poor nutrition negatively affect broiler chicken immunity, survival, and production. Antibiotics are widely utilized in poultry production to preserve animal health and growth. They can eliminate harmful bacteria in the gut, reduce the load on the immune system, optimize the digestive system, and boost growth performance. However, the abuse of antibiotics in animal agriculture has resulted in antibiotic-resistant infections threatening people and animals. As a result of its positive impact on the metabolome and gut microbiome, the natural antimicrobial combination could be used as an alternative; improving broiler chicken growth performance without negatively affecting the environment is currently paramount.</p>
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Good water quality for livestock is critical for preserving animal health, ensuring the quality of animal products, supplying safe food, and increasing food production economics. Higher water levels of toxic compounds than permitted can impair meat, fat, eggs, and milk production, lower fertility, and represent public health hazards. Water picks up pollutants from its surroundings and those caused by animal and human activities. Many physicochemical parameters were used to ensure water quality, including pH, salt, taste, color, alkalinity, odor, and hardness. Water quality, directly and indirectly, impacts livestock performance and, thus, the poultry industry. Employing drinking water as a carrier of drugs still faces substantial barriers. The effectiveness of vaccinations and drugs is affected by inadequate water quality. Furthermore, contaminated water and poor nutrition negatively affect broiler chicken immunity, survival, and production. Antibiotics are widely utilized in poultry production to preserve animal health and growth. They can eliminate harmful bacteria in the gut, reduce the load on the immune system, optimize the digestive system, and boost growth performance. However, the abuse of antibiotics in animal agriculture has resulted in antibiotic-resistant infections threatening people and animals. As a result of its positive impact on the metabolome and gut microbiome, the natural antimicrobial combination could be used as an alternative; improving broiler chicken growth performance without negatively affecting the environment is currently paramount.

Influence of Water Quality and Pollution on Broiler’s Performance, Vaccine and Antibiotic Efficiencies – A Review

Department of Animal Hygiene and Zoonoses, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine

Department of Animal Production, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences

Pharmacognosy Department, Faculty of Pharmacy

Pharmaceutical Analytical Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy

Pharmacy Practice Department, College of Pharmacy

National Cancer Institute, Cairo University

Department of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine

Department of Animal Sciences, College of Agriculture

Poultry Department, Faculty of Agriculture

Annals of Animal Science

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Good water quality for livestock is critical for preserving animal health, ensuring the quality of animal products, supplying safe food, and increasing food...

Influence of Water Quality and Pollution on Broiler’s Performance, Vaccine and Antibiotic Efficiencies – A Review

Publicado en línea: 13 nov 2023

Páginas: 1021 - 1036

Recibido: 23 dic 2022

Aceptado: 13 feb 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/aoas-2023-0023

Palabras clave
antibiotic, broiler performance, water pollution, water quality, water stabilizer, vaccine efficiency

© 2023 Nehad A. Saleh et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Influence of Water Quality and Pollution on Broiler’s Performance, Vaccine and Antibiotic Efficiencies – A Review

Publicado en línea: 13 nov 2023

Páginas: 1021 - 1036

Recibido: 23 dic 2022

Aceptado: 13 feb 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/aoas-2023-0023

Palabras claveantibiotic, broiler performance, water pollution, water quality, water stabilizer, vaccine efficiency

© 2023 Nehad A. Saleh et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Palabras clave
antibiotic, broiler performance, water pollution, water quality, water stabilizer, vaccine efficiency